hi, i have these change map settings in my server but when i start the server it doesn't begin with the first map, which is t1_sour it begins with the last one, map vjun3, and when vjun3 is finished it changes map to the regular maps, like mp/ffa1 then mp/ffa2 and so on, it skips the maps i have entered, does anybody know how i can fix this? really appreciate it

Well thats wrong what you have typed there.
it starts to load t1_sour and loads next and next and so on, and ends on vjun3.
Keep looking in the forum, you will find an example, i just cant remember the write scritping for it.
May the force be with us all, especially me.

That's not how servers work. You want to turn off the automap cycle, because that will just cycle the raven maps. Also, when you do all those map commands in a row, the server loads each map successively, ending with vjun3, which is why you see it as the 'first' map.

'vstr' is a way of telling the engine your going to execute a command(s) thats stuck in a variable basically. technically it stands for variable string.

so what this type of thing does is, it makes the first varible, which i called 'map1'. this variable holds all the information inside the double quotes. that way, when you 'vstr' said varible, it will execute the lines given.

lets look at that first line now.

set map1 "map yourfirstmap; set nextmap vstr map2;"

we know what map1 is, it's the variable that gets set to the stuff after it in quotes, "map yourfirstmap; set nextmap vstr map2;". So we need to know what happens when you vstr that varible. the first thing that happens, is that it does 'map yourfirstmap;' right away. you should note that a semi colon ';' is a way of putting a line break, or two commands, on one line.
The next line says 'set nextmap vstr map2' which means that the variable nextmap, which is what the server loads after the current map gets finished, is set to 'vstr map2'. since we know what vstr does, we need to know what map2 is. but that got set when the server started because all the lines in yoru cfg are executed. so map2 is actually set too...

set map2 "map yoursecondmap; set nextmap vstr map3;"

do you see how that it works?

If you are unclear about how it works still, feel free to keep asking questions.

I should note that all the map# variables get set when the server starts, because it runs through the .cfg sequentially, setting all the map# varibles to their respective settings, and then it hits 'vstr map1' at the bottom. this is what starts the map rotation, it sets the first map with its 'map yourfirstmap' part, and then sets the 'nextmap' variable for the server to use after the current map is finished.

the 'map#' should be map4, otherwise it looks good to me. the reason you set autocycle off, is because with auto cycle, the server cycles through it's own map selection. which means, it does all the base maps. Which is fine, if thats what you want, but you probably want to pick and choose maps for a cycle, or you want to use custom ones. thats why we are changing the 'nextmap' variable ourselves.